Support for sanitary cloths, garments, &amp;c.



No. 776,870. PATENTED DEC. 6, 1904. E. M. SILBERMAN.

SUPPORT FOR SANITARY GLOTHS, GARMENTS, 8w.

APFLIOATIOH FILED MAB.- l. 190?- 7 NO MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented December 6, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SUPPORT FOR SANITARY CLOTHS, GARMENTS, 80c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,870, dated December6, 1904.

Application filed March 1, 1904. Serial No. 195,992.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMANUEL M. SILBER- MAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the cit; and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Supports forSanitary Cloths, Garments, &c., of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of a support for a catamenial sack, a sanitaryband, or an article of wearing-apparel, the novel features of the samebeing hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

The figure represents a front elevation of a support embodying myinvention.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a wire safety-pin, the uppermember of which is divided and from the opposite section of which risesthe suspension device B, which is continuous .of said member and of theform of a loop whose sides are parallel and closed at top and open atbottom. The lower portions of said sides are deflected inwardly ortoward each other, forming the reduced neck C, whose sides are parallel,or approximately so, between which the shank or sewing of a button orstud passes in locating the support, said neck then opening andafterward closing, whereby the support suspended from said button orstud, the latter occupying the top of the device B, retains its positionon said button or stud and is removable only by superior force exertedon the neck G to separate the same.

The support described is more particularly designed to be suspended froma stud or button of a corset and a catamenial sack or sanitary cloth maybe attached to the pin A and so be nicely held in position, it beingevident that a support will be provided for each end of said sack orcloth; but in cases where a stud or button is not available I providethe ends of the pin A with eyes or eyelets E, through which the lacingor strings of a corset may be passed, thus sustaining the support.

It will be seen that as the sides of the loop B are parallel, orapproximately so, when the shank of the stud or button enters the sameand the members of the neck C close on each other the head of said studor button, although (No model.)

of small diameter, greater, however, than the width of the inner spaceof the loop, is retained on said loop without liability of disconnectionuntil the shank or sewing of the stud or button is forcibly pressedagainst the inner faces of the members of the neck to separate the same,while the parallel sides of the loop permit the loop to rise and fall onthe shank or sewing of the stud or head or permit said shank or sewingto rise or fall within the loop during the motions of the body of thewearer without causing the opening of the neck, since the top of thelatter forms a closed shoulder at the bottom of the inner space of theloop, thesame ordinarily presenting an abutment or barrier to the shankof the stud or button, whereby the neck remains in closed condition andthe stud or button is prevented from disconnection from the loop, andvice versa, until the pin is forcibly raised or the stud is forciblylowered, when the shank of the stud or button strikes the closed jointbetween the two members of the neck C and then enters said joint andforcibly separates said members, the head of the stud or button thenentering the space between the top and bottom of the pin, when the pinmay be removed from the stud or button, or vice versa. .lt will also beseen that the loop B is elongated in vertical direction, so that theshank of the button or stud may freely play therein up and down with themotions of the garments of the wearer and that the neck C is alsoelongated in vertical direction, with straight sides, so that themembers thereof have lengthened bearing-surfaces on each other so theneck remains fully in closed condition, while the pin is suspended fromthe shank of the stud or button and prevents under ordinarycircumstances disconnection of the pin by upward motion of the same onthe stud or button; but when superior force is applied to the neck ofthe top, at the joint of the member thereof, then said joint will beproperly entered by the shank of the stud or button and the membersovercome laterally, as above stated.

Various changes may be made in the details of construction shown withoutdeparting from the general spirit of my invention, and I do not,therefore, desire to be limited ineach 1 vertically elongated reducedneck having case to the same. straight parallel side membersintermediate Having thus described my invention, What of said pin andloop, the members of said I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters neck being normally in contact throughout 5 Patent, is theirlength and forming a closed shoulder at I5 A support of the characterstated, consistthe base of the inner space of said loop. ing of asafety-pin, the top member of which EMANUEL M. SILBERMAN. is divided anda suspension device rising there- I Witnesses: from, said deviceconsisting of avertically- E JOHN A. lVIEDERsHEIM,

IO elongated loop having parallel sides and a S. R. CARR.

